Monday, December 7, 2009
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Holy crap with the freakin questions! Elder Toney is from Houston, Texas. He's been out a little bit longer than me in the field but he was in the MTC spanish so he has been a misionary for quite a bit longer than I have. He was one of the missionaries that was in quarantine with swine flu too so that delayed him from coming out here for a while. Yeah Elder Perez and Trott are the Zone Leaders now. It's cool I guess, I don't know, obviously I didn't get along with Elder Perez that much so now that we're not companions I don't really care what he's doing. But he and Elder Trott are great zone leaders, they both have never done it before but they are already pretty good at their job.
We baptized Enrique from Mexico and Eugenio from Cuba. Eugenio is a homeless guy that Fernando, one of the members just picked up off the street and he's lettin him stay at his house and he invited him to church and so we taught him and then he got baptized! It was really cool, a miracle for sure! Yeah we go out to places like that to eat after district meetings and on p days and stuff. My first district we went to Chilis all the time and there's a really good bbq place called Sonnys that we eat at a lot. Oh my gosh and Firehouse! Firehouse is so good! I don't know what I'm going to do when I come home and have to eat at subway again, I might cry. Firehouse subs is amazing! I've never seen any in Utah but if you find one you have to eat there because it's just so good. Sometimes we go out to dinner but not that often. Elder Toney is actually a really good cook. We go in and buy groceries together and he just cooks like fajitas and chili and pasta and all kinds of good stuff, it's pretty awesome. We also really like to go to the Mexican Tiendas and get carne asada tacos. That's really fun because now we can go in there and actually talk to the people that work there.
Orange Park is a little bit bigger than Sandy/Draper. There's a lot more apt complexes and city stuff like that but it's not super huge. There's also quite a few trailer parks that we go to to tract. In this area we have to share the car with the other elders so we get the car Wed. Sat. and Sun. and the rest of the time we ride bikes. We're getting our own car pretty soon though. Oh speaking of which, we just traded in our car because it had 60000 miles or something on it so we traded it in to the mission office and now we are driving a brand new gold 2010 Toyota Corolla. It's way sweet! It's kinda funny though, we feel kinda bad sometimes driving into trailer parks and stuff in our brand new car but it's a Corolla. I guess President Newman actually got a better deal from BMW for the mission cars but he decided to go with Corolla just because BMW would look to nice.
It doesn't really feel like Christmas here either, there's no snow, hardly any decorations anywhere, and it's not even that cold. Plus I'm just working like a normal day every day. It's kinda weird whenever I see someone's tree and think, oh yeah Christmas is coiming up, weird. But it's ok I'll be able to have a normal Christmas in a few years.
So I'm still trying really hard to figure out who I am as a missionary and how to do stuff and how to speak the language, I didn't anticipate how hard this whole mission thing is. I don't think anyone really can until they actually get out here. But I'm having fun while I'm learning and I can't wait to be able to look back some day and see how much I've grown and changed since now. But for right now, it's just a lot of hard work trying to figure out the ways I need to change so in the mean time it kinda feels like I'm not having a lot of "success" as far as numbers go but it's ok I'm still working hard and doing all that I know how to do so the Lord will bless us with that kind of "success" once he molds me into what he needs me to be a little more. This weekend is going to be our 1050 weekend!!!! I know it's going to happen. By this Sunday this mission will have had 1050 baptisms for the year! We are all so excited and we are all working so hard to make it happen we want it so bad! I'll have to email you next week and tell you how it was.
I'm glad everything is good. I can't wait to talk to you all.
Love you.
Elder Johnson
Oh our adress is 6870 103 st #608
Jacksonville, FL 32210
We baptized Enrique from Mexico and Eugenio from Cuba. Eugenio is a homeless guy that Fernando, one of the members just picked up off the street and he's lettin him stay at his house and he invited him to church and so we taught him and then he got baptized! It was really cool, a miracle for sure! Yeah we go out to places like that to eat after district meetings and on p days and stuff. My first district we went to Chilis all the time and there's a really good bbq place called Sonnys that we eat at a lot. Oh my gosh and Firehouse! Firehouse is so good! I don't know what I'm going to do when I come home and have to eat at subway again, I might cry. Firehouse subs is amazing! I've never seen any in Utah but if you find one you have to eat there because it's just so good. Sometimes we go out to dinner but not that often. Elder Toney is actually a really good cook. We go in and buy groceries together and he just cooks like fajitas and chili and pasta and all kinds of good stuff, it's pretty awesome. We also really like to go to the Mexican Tiendas and get carne asada tacos. That's really fun because now we can go in there and actually talk to the people that work there.
Orange Park is a little bit bigger than Sandy/Draper. There's a lot more apt complexes and city stuff like that but it's not super huge. There's also quite a few trailer parks that we go to to tract. In this area we have to share the car with the other elders so we get the car Wed. Sat. and Sun. and the rest of the time we ride bikes. We're getting our own car pretty soon though. Oh speaking of which, we just traded in our car because it had 60000 miles or something on it so we traded it in to the mission office and now we are driving a brand new gold 2010 Toyota Corolla. It's way sweet! It's kinda funny though, we feel kinda bad sometimes driving into trailer parks and stuff in our brand new car but it's a Corolla. I guess President Newman actually got a better deal from BMW for the mission cars but he decided to go with Corolla just because BMW would look to nice.
It doesn't really feel like Christmas here either, there's no snow, hardly any decorations anywhere, and it's not even that cold. Plus I'm just working like a normal day every day. It's kinda weird whenever I see someone's tree and think, oh yeah Christmas is coiming up, weird. But it's ok I'll be able to have a normal Christmas in a few years.
So I'm still trying really hard to figure out who I am as a missionary and how to do stuff and how to speak the language, I didn't anticipate how hard this whole mission thing is. I don't think anyone really can until they actually get out here. But I'm having fun while I'm learning and I can't wait to be able to look back some day and see how much I've grown and changed since now. But for right now, it's just a lot of hard work trying to figure out the ways I need to change so in the mean time it kinda feels like I'm not having a lot of "success" as far as numbers go but it's ok I'm still working hard and doing all that I know how to do so the Lord will bless us with that kind of "success" once he molds me into what he needs me to be a little more. This weekend is going to be our 1050 weekend!!!! I know it's going to happen. By this Sunday this mission will have had 1050 baptisms for the year! We are all so excited and we are all working so hard to make it happen we want it so bad! I'll have to email you next week and tell you how it was.
I'm glad everything is good. I can't wait to talk to you all.
Love you.
Elder Johnson
Oh our adress is 6870 103 st #608
Jacksonville, FL 32210
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